JMARS Mission analysis and planning tool for remote sensing
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JMARS Description

JMARS, also known as Java Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing, is designed as an easy-to-use geospatial information system (GIS). JMARS was developed by ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility to provide mission planning and data-analysis tools to NASA's orbiters, instrument team members, students of all ages, and the general public. The application provides efficient access to more than a terabyte of NASA orbiter data, and has basic image and vector processing features to conveniently compare, plot, and blend data. Main features: Take multiple datasets (thermal inertia, mineral composition, digital elevations, etc.) and overlay them into a single, registered multilayer image. Make topographic profiles, extract surface temperatures (day or night), plot footprints and render remote sensing images from orbiters. Correlate mineral compositions with topographic data. Combine surface roughness data with thermal inertia data. Contour maps may be created. Groups of layers can be composed by transparency blending or building an HSV/RGB composite. Plots may be created by drawing multi-segment lines on the map, making it easy to sample elevation, thermal inertia, or other surface properties in an area of interest. Load and process raw numeric rasters, which may be stretched and colorized on the fly. Load and process vector data in several common formats. Edit vector data on the map or in a table. Use vector processing tools to calculate properties like line bearing or polygonal area. An SQL-like scripting language provides a powerful transformation and filtering feature.

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